The document outlines a session on selecting requirements engineering (RE) tools, detailing general-purpose and specific RE tools. It emphasizes understanding how to assess tools through a variety of resources, including a tool survey from an IEEE software article. Additionally, it provides a lab assignment to compare findings about the Jama requirements management tool with criteria from the article and submit an assessment for bonus points.

1. Requirements Engineering
Tools
CECS 542, Dr. Birgit Penzenstadler
Photo credit: Joshua Earle, Unsplash

2. Outline for today
• What to do when having to select tools for
RE?
• Types of RE tools
• IEEE SoJware arKcle of tool survey
– How to read such an arKcle
– How to asses tools that weren’t in there

3. Types of tools
• General purpose tools
– Office (natural language documents,
spreadsheets)
– Drawing programs (draw.io, cacoo)
• Specific RE tools
– Requirements database tools
– Computer-aided soJware engineering (CASE)
tools
– See IEEE SW arKcle for survey

4. IEEE SW arKcle:
Requirements Engineering Tools
• Concise version of research journal arKcle
• Our goal is to learn
– How to digest such info
– How to understand how it was created
– How to make use of the content
– How to expand on the content
(by assessing addiKonal tools)

5. Tool surveys

6. Seapine

7. IBM RaKonal DOORS

8. Jama

9. Lab assignment
• Read through the IEEE SW arKcle
• Take a look at 2-3 online demos for RE tools, e.g. DOORS,
Seapine, and jUCMNav
• Inform yourself about the Jama Requirements
Management tool
h_p://www.jamasoJware.com/jama-requirements-
management/
• Compare what you can find out about Jama RM on their
website with the criteria in the IEEE SW arKcle, Table 3, and
the IST arKcle, page 6, and write a one-page summary of
your assessment.
• Submit that summary by Monday evening (opKonal) for 5
bonus points.

10. Resources
• h_p://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/
5929527/
• h_p://dl.acm.org/citaKon.cfm?id=2325050
• h_p://makingofsoJware.com/resources/list-
of-rm-tools
• h_p://www.capterra.com/requirements-
management-soJware/